Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar (30 September 1894 – 15 January 1990) was an Indian writer and politician from

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

Biography

R. R. Diwakar was born on 30 September 1894. From the very beginning, he was interested in writing. He made many efforts to unify the

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

linguistic regions. He joined the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

during the independence movement. Later he became a member of the

Constituent Assembly A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected b ...

and Provisional Parliament of India from

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Sou ...

. He served as the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Nehru cabinet (from 1 April 1949 to 15 April 1952). He was elected as a member of the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

from Bombay State on 3 April 1952, but resigned on 13 June 1952. Within two days he was appointed the

Governor of Bihar The governor of Bihar is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Bihar. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. Phagu Chauhan is the current governor of Bihar. Former President Zaki ...

(15 June 1952 to 5 July 1957). He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 from

where he served till 1968. After 1968, he distanced himself from politics and wrote several books in English, Kannada and

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

. He died on 15 January 1990.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diwakar, R. R. Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha 1894 births 1990 deaths Governors of Bihar Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka Members of the Constituent Assembly of India Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian politicians Kannada-language writers Hindi-language writers English-language writers from India Writers from Karnataka Ministers for Information and Broadcasting of India